Actually more important than skin tone, I think gender is a better determination of which black person gets hired or not. From what I've seen from my university, which is basically a community in itself, whites are more likely to hire black women than black men. White people still very much see blacks as low and animalistic in nature. And since black females are less threatening to them than males, they are more likely to fill up their employment quotas with them than with males. My university has one of the best business schools in the country, and a lot of companies send their employees there to study for their MBAs. They pay for the fees which most ordinary Canadians would not be able to afford on their own. I'm not in business but I work part time in their building and for the whole year that I have been there, I have seen plenty of black women, not as much as other races off course, but I've only seen one black man in the building. He's not light skinned and is not a coconut but he's really thin, straight featured, has an African accent and is medium in height. Besides the dark skin, I think the otherfeatures may have helped him in getting into the school. My father is the only black man at his work as well and he basically falls in the same category as this guy.

The discrimination that goes on in Hollywood, which is disproportinately against dark skinned black females is not the same discrimination that goes on in the work place. Hollywood basis it's discrimination on perceived attractiveness and masculanity and in this case, the light-skinned female is seen as more attractive than the dark skinned female. And the dark skinned male is seen as more masculine than the light skinned male. In the work place, discrimination is based on who whitey is more threatened by and he sees the more African featured male as more threatening out of every black person. They also found the same results in the sentencing ofblack criminals.

And DtotheJ said, being a foreign black is also used as a basis for creating castes. In America, black Americans get fewer breaks than foreign blacks and here in Canada, being a black person of Jamaican descent isnot goodbecause whites love nothing better than to point fingers at Jamaicans for every crime that a black person commits. Even if the person is not Jamaican, their community will be the first place that the police will start looking at.

Also when it comes to other races, black people, not matter our gender or skin tone, will be the last people to be hired. People who are visibly moslem also seem to be at a disadvantage. And out of the non-white groups, Far East Asians receive the most acceptance from whites in all avenues of society.I think this is because they're the group that tries the hardest to fit into mainstream white culture anddespite the Asian males have small penises sterotype, they also have more positive sterotypes than negative ones.

But no matter where you fit into this caste system, no one, unless they're stupid, should be celebrating about it. This is a scheme which not only keep whites at the top, but also stops us from banning together and fighting against them. They basically have us fighting over crumbs by giving us the illusion that if you don't threaten them or are close to them in some manner then you can work through the ranks and be equated with them. But the truth of the matter is that if you are not white, it doesn't matter how light your skin is or what gender you are are, you are still not worth the dirt on their feet and they can and will make you realize this whenever you get beyond yourself and step out of line. But unfortunately neither black people nor other races are willing to stop squabbling over crumbs and start working for a bigger slice of the pie. This is why colourism, ethnocentrism, "hair-textureism etc now exist amongst all non-white races in the world. Unless you're white, you should not be rejoicing over the plight of anyone, because sooner or later, you're going to face the heat as well. Just ask the Arabs.